Although it's tempting to call Brantley Gilbert a country artist -with #1 hits like "Bottoms Up," and hit singles like "Small Town Throwdown" and "One Hell of an Amen" he certainly embraces the outlaw country side of things -- in many ways his music is closer to the heartland sentiments of artists like John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, and perhaps most apt, Steve Earle. Gilbert blends country music with the swaggering sounds of Southern rock creating a hard-stomping country/rock/soul mixture that's hard to forget.

RCA Records Nashville singer/songwriter Miranda Lambert touts five studio albums to her repertoire: Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), Revolution (2009), Four The Record (2011) and Platinum (2014), the latter earning Lambert a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album to go with her previous GRAMMY win for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2010 for “The House That Built Me.”